- 1897 – Essendon wins the first VFL/AFL premiership.
- 1914 - William Henry Strahan published "The Bugle Call"
- 1924 – The Commonwealth Citrus Research Station (subsumed in 1927 into the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)) opened at Griffith, New South Wales in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (which is fed by the Murrumbidgee River).
- 1992 – Lynn Arnold becomes Premier of South Australia after the resignation of John Bannon following the near-collapse of the State Bank.
- 2005 – Robert Farquharson murders his three children by driving them into a farm dam near Winchelsea, Victoria.
- 2006 – Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, dies after being stung by a stingray.